The series of six earthquakes that shook Myanmar yesterday, occurring along the Sagaing fault -- the country’s longest faultline -- served as a stark reminder of Dhaka’s earthquake vulnerability.
The project will be built on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which becomes the Brahmaputra in India and the Jamuna in Bangladesh.
Despite annual recharge every year, there is an overall declining trend in groundwater level due to over-extraction
At least 79 of the government-listed 1,156 rivers flowing through the country have dried up or are in the process of drying up in recent times, threatening livelihoods, agriculture, and local biodiversity, a recent study has revealed.
Over the past decade, nearly half of the country’s wild elephant population has been wiped out.
Under the deal, POWERCHINA will prepare a concept paper by December and conduct a feasibility study in 2026
Nineteen-year-old Sajjad Hossain had no alternative but to start building a new thatched home for his two sisters, mother and himself since their house was swept away by a flood four months ago in Pashchim Aloka village, situated on the banks of Muhuri river in Feni’s Parshuram upazila.
Having experienced two earthquakes in the span of a single week, an obvious question looms – are we taking this silent threat seriously enough?
The salinity of the groundwater surrounding fish farms in the northern region has been on the rise as fish farmers have been using large quantities of salt in their ponds, a survey finds.
Patagonian Mara, a somewhat rabbit-like animal, is found in open and semi-open habitats in Argentina, including in large parts of Patagonia. This herbivorous mammal, which also looks like deer, is never known to be found in this part of the subcontinent.
Dhaka city has lost a combined length of 120km or 307 hectares of canals, which could have been waterways and vital drainage, thanks to encroachment, unplanned urbanisation and lack of maintenance by the authorities in the last 80 years.
Upon reaching the Harishkhali village in Pratapnagar union, an area on the forefront of climate impacts in the country,the first thing noticed was a red flag, hoisted by the launch terminal, fluttering against the southernbreeze.
As farmers start harvesting and threshing early varieties of Aman paddy in the northern districts, the fear looms that their profit could be negligible due to higher production costs than last year.
Defying repeated calls by the nature-concerned people, the government has passed a project to build a Safari Park in Lathitila reserved forest raising the prospect of destroying one of our last remaining evergreen forests
Around 1,430 people, aged 65 and up, have died between 2017 and 2021 from heat-related causes, which have accelerated due to climate change, said a study revealed yesterday.
Defying the law, locally influential people are illegally extracting sand from many sites of different rivers and seashores across the country, affecting biodiversity and upsetting ecosystems in the country’s waters.
Standing near the eroded edge of the mythical river in Matikata village of Tangail, 90-year-old Hashem Ali Munshi says the bank of the Jamuna is as shifting as ever. His vacant eyes belie the irrevocable damage the river has done to him.
Three and a half years into the High Court order to ban single-use plastic products in the coastal districts, there has been no visible progress towards implementation.
